"The Legend of Lizzie Borden" fan James Cushing finds an axe and thinks it is destiny to follow in the footsteps of the real-life suspected murderess.

A young man imitates Freddy Krueger.

Christian Gerhartsreiter poses as a high society figure in a chilling echo of the film The Talented Mr Ripley, murdering to protect his true identity.

A look at real-life murder cases inspired by those in film and television with interviews of family members and investigators.

Two girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, decide to sacrifice their friend Payton Leutner for the infamous online horror villain Slender Man; after reading stories about Slender Man, the two 12-year-old girls attempt to murder their classmate.

An in-depth look at a murderer that parallels the fictional character, Patrick Bateman in "American Psycho."

A man hunts victims online and lures them into a kill room.

In the series premiere, two teens brutally stab and kill a female classmate using famous horror movie tropes.

Two troubled lovers become the lead characters from "Natural Born Killers" and embark on a cross-country killing spree.

A man's infidelity culminates in stalking and murder.

A Gulf War Veteran declares war on the entire Los Angeles Police Department in the style of the movie, "Rambo."

In Moscow, a woman obsessed with the horror film "Bride of Chucky" goes on a stabbing rampage with a gang of male accomplices, leading to the deaths of 15 people.

A real life Hannibal Lechter comes to light.

Teenage lovers Kim Edwards and Lucas Markham become convinced that the only way they can be together is to murder Kim's mother, Elizabeth, who has tried to break them up many times.

Three best friends turn on each other in high school.

A man's obsession with the movie "Queen of the Damned" leads him to murder his friend, eat part of his body and drink his blood in an effort to achieve immortality.

A pizza deliveryman finds himself a player in a killer's twisted game, designed to torture and test it's victim's will to live.

Token clerk Harry Kaufman goes to work at a Brooklyn subway station like any other day, having no idea that two men named Vincent Ellerbe and James Irons would create a fatal fire in the token clerk's booth.

John Hinckley Jr and the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan.

Cousins Tony Bagnato and Diego Carbone join a fight club, but Tony soon turns into a wannabe crime boss who decides one member needs to pay the ultimate price.

n an attempt to become just like his favorite fictitious criminals, New Jersey man Joe Post joins the "Pit Bulls," a small gang of local drug addicts who terrorize the neighborhood. While the Pit Bulls' crimes start off small, when Joe becomes convinced fellow gang member Andrew may have ratted them out to the authorities, Joe takes no mercy in a brutal Goodfellas–inspired copycat crime.

On a warm summer evening in Aurora, Colorado, an excited audience sits down for the opening midnight showing of "The Dark Knight Rises," but little do they know, this will be a night to remember, and not because of the film.

Most people remember the D.C. snipers terrorizing the Washington, D.C. area as the world watched for three weeks in October 2002, but what many do not realize is that it all stemmed from the movie, "The Matrix."

For Regan Jolley, life seems too good to be true when she meets a charming young war veteran, Jason Hart, in rehab and starts a whirlwind romance, but when the relationship turns sour, Regan loses everything and pays with her life.

A teenager seeks notoriety by reenacting a violent scene from the 1995 film "The Basketball Diaries."